ABSTRACT
Following the unique insights from Black, women of colour and Indigenous feminist writings, along with queer of colour scholarship, this chapter interrogates the ways in which minority knowledge fields and producers respond to the neoliberal interpellations of the western university, particularly to its newfound fondness for difference reduced to benign diversity that opens up toxic opportunities for them. Building on an understanding of neoliberalism as a vast educational project or social pedagogy that strives to remodel society, including our subjectivities, to its own image of market rationality and relationality – a project expanding itself by successfully absorbing and neutralising, to some extent, its own critiques, among them minority knowledge projects and producers – this intervention hopes to contribute to the growing literature on envisioning collectively other possibilities, alternative forms of relationality and counter-institutionality within the neoliberal white settler university.
